Reverb--What pedal best re-creates "Fender" reverb

I have decided to buy a Champ or a VibroChamp, but they don't have reverb. Is there anything out there that comes close to "Fender" reverb? Is there anything for cheap? Thanks.

electro-harmonix "holy grail" reverb sounds great. cheap? not exactly. 100 bucks

While Ii have not heard one, a fella I did some business with said the Songworks Lil Lanalie Reverb pedal is pretty close to the reverb on his Fender Princeton.

Again, I have no personal experience with one...just repeating what he said.

the little gray guyatone digital reverb is pretty good, as is the holy grail.
johnny atomic

Either a Grail or an Alesis Nanoverb (Nano does lotsa really cool stuff and it's got stereo ins and outs).
Find one "used" if you can save a buck or two.

I'm with the Holy Grail side here, completely.

Fender 63RI Reverb unit

I've owned (and sold) both the little lanilei and the Fender '63. no comparison, the Fender is ten times nicer, even if it is twice the price. if you play clean, clean, clean, the Fender will put a smile on your face every time -- but when the compression / distortion picks up, they can sound plain nasty to my ear. Never a good fit with my bad cat. sounded terrific with an old non-verb deluxe.

lately I find that practicing without reverb keeps me honest. and I don't find that I need reverb onstage -- usually too much clutter anyway, both in the sound and in the equipment. sooner or later I'll get around to trying out the Holy Grail, though, I bet.

I've been just saying no to reverb lately too. Some songs or types of songs require it though. So now it's more of an effect than a piece of my tone. What I'd really like to see is a digital delay pedal like the Line 6 or Boss DD-20 that let you select multiple presets also feature a good spring reverb simulation.

Reverb freak here.

The Holy Grail is the closest thing to real spring reverb you'll find in a pedal. I use it with tweeds and it's just tremendous.

I've owned (and sold) both the little lanilei and the Fender '63. no comparison, the Fender is ten times nicer, even if it is twice the price. if you play clean, clean, clean, the Fender will put a smile on your face every time -- but when the compression / distortion picks up, they can sound plain nasty to my ear. Never a good fit with my bad cat. sounded terrific with an old non-verb deluxe.

lately I find that practicing without reverb keeps me honest. and I don't find that I need reverb onstage -- usually too much clutter anyway, both in the sound and in the equipment. sooner or later I'll get around to trying out the Holy Grail, though, I bet.



Hey KC...Is the volume affected(or in this case effected^^)by the Lanilei spring being on at all or do you just get a bunch of spring 'verb on top of your original output? I like my Grail around 1 o'clock(beyond that is both too drowny and drops the volume so much), and nonetheless kinda wondered how a real "outboard reverb" would compare, simply based on volume. I corresponded via email with Tris at Little Lanelei over there in San Juan Capistrano, and just the nice-ness of his quick responses and informative wording made me want to jump on over to buy one of his clean 50-watters...Alas money wasn't on my side at the time.

Um...oopz.

I just checked songworks.com and found out about the "drive control" on the Lanilei Spring Reverb. I guess there are more ways to do homework than just doing searches on TDPRI.:wink: Any other input on the item(although harmony-central seems to have a load) would be just as cool, nonetheless...curious about what amp you were driving at the time, too. "Tele-enquiring minds wanna know"

I have been using a Holy Grail with my VibroChamp for quite a while and think it's the best. At first I thought it was a little noisy but after trying several other pedals, I still think it is the best for the price. Besides, you can't hear the noise when you're playing anyway. You can find them used for $75 almost all the time; that's what I paid for mine. Check out HC or ebay; every once in a while, one even pops up here on the garage sale.

EDIT: I just checked ebay and there's quite a few of them for sale, one has a BIN price of $60. If I didn't already have one, I'd snap that one up fast....

Either a Grail or an Alesis Nanoverb (Nano does lotsa really cool stuff and it's got stereo ins and outs).
Find one "used" if you can save a buck or two.

I like the verbs on the Alesis Picoverb as well

I got the best sound out of the Lanilei with an old non-verb Deluxe by going

guitar into channel 2 input one
channel 2 input two into verb
verb out into channel one

this gives you one channel of dry guitar and a second channel of verb -- mix and eq at will. less boingy than between guitar and amp. have fun